Live from UGA-Washington: It’s late night at the Big Dance!
Mark Fox coaches free throws at Thursday's practice. (Photo courtesy of the Charlotte Observer)
Charlotte – To borrow from the Kenny Loggins song that served as NBC’s theme for the 1980 NCAA tournament — yep, NBC once had the Big Dance — this is it. Georgia and Washington are about to meet, and ’round midnight we’ll know if the Bulldogs will be halfway toward the Sweet 16. And now you ask: Who in his/her right mind would pick Georgia to make the Sweet 16?
I haven’t had a very good tournament, forecast-wise — and we’re only in (Full) Day 2! — but I have made a bit of a comeback from yesterday’s misdoings. I had Arizona over Memphis, George Mason over Villanova, Florida State over Texas A&M. (I also had Tennessee over Michigan and came within 31 points of being right.)
As we speak, I’m seated courtside at Time Warner Cable Arena, and you will be shocked to know there are about 12,000 folks wearing powder blue in the joint. (North Carolina play Long Island in the early game.) But before we begin our live-blog thing, I must pass along a snippet of news both good and bad.
Owing to the late start of UGA-UDub, no print edition of Saturday’s AJC will include an MB column reflecting the outcome of the game. This is my 31st NCAA tournament, and it’s the first time I’ve never had a print deadline to meet. But what that does mean is that I won’t have to switch from the live-chatting to write an actual column. I can offer the usual wit and insight — “Yeah, right,” you’re saying — until the final buzzer, if and when it arrives.
With that, we’ll tip off the digital festivities, and I hope you’ll join me in saying: Thank goodness for AJC.com. And, once again, away we go.
By Mark Bradley
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BobDawg
March 18th, 2011
11:15 pm
Tech Stinger…. If you answer c on every question.. I bet anyone would score higher than that?!
UW Dawgs by 20!
March 18th, 2011
11:15 pm
Mark, you’re going to be eating your words in 20 minutes! Thankfully the trip home won’t be too long.
Bjohndawg
March 18th, 2011
11:16 pm
Ware and Robinson playing strong on defense
but need to play within their game on offense
stop the stupid long 3 attempts
if huskies hit 3s dawgs in trouble
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:16 pm
Second half starts at 11:16 EDT
Swami Sez
March 18th, 2011
11:16 pm
Yes Mr Bradley but fatigue is setting in for Dawgs thus missed 3’s in second half. Bank on it and call Vegas so you can bet the house on it. Pay off your mortgage!
seanb
March 18th, 2011
11:16 pm
Price has misssed more layups than anyone in the ncaa
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:16 pm
AJ GREEN was still a Junior and working hard on his Pre-Business Degree
JSS
March 18th, 2011
11:17 pm
Kellogg will never be as BORING or WITLESS as McCarver! Clark is fine compared to Billy Intensity
playmeortrademe
March 18th, 2011
11:17 pm
Slonaker’c comments show that he knows the team was tired. I know they aren’t very deep but they’ve had a week to rest…and this is the tournament. Maybe a crash after an adrenaline high for most of the first half. But that’s still concerning that they were gassed.
Rabun Dawg
March 18th, 2011
11:17 pm
Carolina will eat either one of these teams alive! Dogs have how many unforced turnovers? Any decent team could have put the Huskies away with them in that long drought, but no, we let them back in , just as we have all season. Hate to say it, but I bet we lose by double digits! And what is up with Price? He has been a non factor, and as usual Barnes is a non factor! This team looks poorly coached for the what, 23rd game of the season?
D A DoubleU G
March 18th, 2011
11:17 pm
Why yes, Tech Stinger…..
AJ did. I had a class with him and he is a very bright individual.
Unfortunately, AJ is a football minded individual, and I can guarantee you he did not take that test seriously. He, like I, wonder how that test proves if you wan run a route and catch a football. If he had to take that test knowing a real job depended on it, i promise the rsults would have been different.
I knew that was fuel for you haters the second I saw it. And how you want to make his test score effect ME, I am unsure…. but keep trying, sir.
73-72
42-34
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:17 pm
Price scores in the lane. Georgia up 30-28
BobDawg
March 18th, 2011
11:17 pm
Geez, Price on a wing and a prayer.
KB
March 18th, 2011
11:18 pm
Wow what a foul on the three
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:18 pm
Bad luck. Deflection falls to Thomas, who tries to throw up a three at the horn and gets fouled by Ware
playmeortrademe
March 18th, 2011
11:18 pm
Ware…those mistakes are costly…
BobDawg
March 18th, 2011
11:18 pm
Ware with a brain fart.
Mark Bradleyt
March 18th, 2011
11:19 pm
Thomas hits all three. Washington pressing.
Ryan Kaczmarski
March 18th, 2011
11:19 pm
OMG I am jealous of “them dawgs”!!!!
My jackets are at home doing NOTHING right now!!!!
come be my facebook friend!! http://www.facebook.com/yer.blues?ref=ts
Typical Tech Fan
March 18th, 2011
11:19 pm
Tech Stinger
and what will his bank account look like as opposed to yours?
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:19 pm
D A I bet you and AJ will be the first UGA engineers. HAHHAHAHAHHHHHHHH. A J was brite like a 5 watt bulb.
Tech Stinger
March 18th, 2011
11:20 pm
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:16 pm
AJ GREEN was still a Junior and working hard on his Pre-Business Degree
Lol, Try telling D A DoubleU G that. He thinks AJ is a bright student when he can’t score higher than Cam Newton on a test.
Tell the truth
March 18th, 2011
11:20 pm
give me a break
playmeortrademe
March 18th, 2011
11:20 pm
Gawd…YOU CANNOT SCREW UP A TWO ON ONE…STUPID!
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:20 pm
Price misses. Washington misses on a break. Robinson throws a lob for Travis out of bounds. Holiday ducks in for a bank. Huskies up 33-30.
D A DoubleU G
March 18th, 2011
11:20 pm
My god, take the solid two there.
We are letting this get away fast.
Feast haters….. feast.
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:21 pm
Trey with a bank. Dogs down 33-32. Thompkins with 17 points.
Tell the truth
March 18th, 2011
11:21 pm
Still time to take your no look prediction back Stewardess
Tech Stinger
March 18th, 2011
11:21 pm
Typical Tech Fan
March 18th, 2011
11:19 pm
Tech Stinger
and what will his bank account look like as opposed to yours?
I hope more than 10!!! He probably can’t count higher than that so he decided to stop there
BobDawg
March 18th, 2011
11:22 pm
This game is shades of the Bama games… Huskies just throw it up and play great D.
JSS
March 18th, 2011
11:22 pm
Blubber!
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:22 pm
Jeremy Price called for his third foul. Hit Bryan-Amaning in the lane. Fox didn’t like the call. I thought it was close.
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:23 pm
Do UGA players feel like NFL players? Are UGA players Slaves to the uga plantation?
D A DoubleU G
March 18th, 2011
11:23 pm
Tech Stinger……
I know you and your Techie folk want to think a single athlete-minded individual from UGA who is about to make about 175% more money than you will EVER see represents the mindset of the entire UGA student body……
but you are wrong…….
Tell me again where Nesbitt is projected in the draft….and did he graduate from Tech….. (the answer is NO, so don’t bother researching it)
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:23 pm
Thompkins follow dunk waved off. Good call, I thought. Ball was on the rim.
TV apparently shows it wasn’t.
BobDawg
March 18th, 2011
11:23 pm
THEY MISSED THE CALL!
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:23 pm
UGA ROBBED ROBBED BAD DAMNIT,
KB
March 18th, 2011
11:23 pm
That basket should have counted
Typical Tech Fan
March 18th, 2011
11:23 pm
Tech Stinger & Delta Stewardess
Care to bring reggie “can’t count to four” ball into the conversation?
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:24 pm
Thomas hits a fallaway. Washington up 37-32. Chris Barnes gets fouled.
playmeortrademe
March 18th, 2011
11:24 pm
wish they could review those things….refs tend to anticipate violations in those situations
KB
March 18th, 2011
11:24 pm
WOW how embarassing is thaqt
BobDawg
March 18th, 2011
11:24 pm
Barnes… our bench…. ugh…..
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:24 pm
Barnes airs a free throw. Then bricks the next.
JSS
March 18th, 2011
11:24 pm
Leslie will end up in the D-Leagur oe the end of the bench till he expands his game… But he is exciting!
seanb
March 18th, 2011
11:25 pm
If you throw an airball on the free throw line you need a new sport!
G
March 18th, 2011
11:25 pm
Price is so slow on defense. All he does is foul
KB
March 18th, 2011
11:25 pm
Need to make a run and stop here
Tucker T
March 18th, 2011
11:25 pm
OH MY GOODNESS! Air ball on a free throw!
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:25 pm
I am a UGA grad with my fine arts degree. I hate the HATING and I am not sold on this team after they leave the locker room to start the 2nd half.